Thanks for remindjng me of this series! I don’t have an archeology background but did study some history and it’s interesting (and unfortunate) how similar the fight between actual academic work and more popular pseudo histories is between the fields.
New evidence strongly suggests Indonesia's Gunung Padang is oldest known pyramid [See comments.] (phys.org)
Paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/arp.1912